List of ancient dishes

The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with Sumerian cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing from the protoliterate period around 3,000 to 2,900 years BCE.

[a][1] Ancient history can be defined as occurring from the beginning of recorded human history to: Although the end date of what constitutes ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE (the most used),[8][9] the closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 CE,[10] the death of the emperor Justinian I in 565 CE,[11] the spread of Islam in 610 CE[12] or the rise of Charlemagne[13] as the end of ancient and Classical European history.

Archeologists and food historians have recreated some dishes using ancient recipes.

Different areas besides Iran (Persia) in the world have now spun this dish into numerous different variations – including, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Georgia, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary – the dish and its origins, however, come from ancient Persia and the recipe can be dated as far back as at the very least 400 BCE as it was mentioned on Cuneiform Tablets during the Persian period.

[14] Abgoosht and its variants with localised recipes are the national dishes of a number of countries worldwide.